9 - GLSA-201706-03

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in QEMU, the worst of which may allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service or gain elevated privileges from a guest VM.

Background

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker might cause a Denial of Service or gain escalated privileges from a guest VM.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All QEMU users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/qemu-2.9.0-r2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-9603 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9603
[ 2 ] CVE-2017-7377 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7377
[ 3 ] CVE-2017-7471 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7471
[ 4 ] CVE-2017-7493 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7493
[ 5 ] CVE-2017-7718 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7718
[ 6 ] CVE-2017-7980 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7980
[ 7 ] CVE-2017-8086 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8086
[ 8 ] CVE-2017-8112 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8112
[ 9 ] CVE-2017-8309 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8309
[ 10 ] CVE-2017-8379 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8379
[ 11 ] CVE-2017-8380 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8380
[ 12 ] CVE-2017-9060 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-9060
[ 13 ] CVE-2017-9310 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-9310
[ 14 ] CVE-2017-9330 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-9330

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03